Shu Fly

About a week ago I noticed what I thought were gnats (or pecker gnats as my hubby calls them) flying around in my master bathroom.. particularly around Mic's toothbrush--DISGUSTING! I thought they would just go away but every time I went into the bathroom they were multiplying by the dozens. I started thinking they were going to take over my house if I didn't do something quick so I did some research and figured out that they were fruit flies and decided to try this out.

I filled the bottom of the container with a little wine.. (Arbor Mist is all I had and it worked fabulously) and a couple drops of dish soap

I covered it with foil and poked holes in it.

About 10 minutes after I sat it out it already had like 10 fruit flies in it! Here's what is looks like 12 hours later!

This gives me the heebie jeabies just looking at it, but thank you sweet baby Jesus that these things are in dead in the container and not swarming around my bathroom sink anymore!

What I got into this weekend...

I didn't get into a whole lotta anything really--kinda nice.  Friday my hubby worked on this "thang"

--Prepare yourself..I'm about to get sidetracked!--

((insert long and meaningful *sigh* here)

Let me stop you for a second and tell you about this battle I've been fighting the last (at least) 3 years..

So.. it started with this 1902 (ok not really that old) box truck, that I called a bread truck.. or pedophile van.. it was H.O.R.R.I.B.L.E.-- I fought with him, and bitched at him, and whined at him to PLEASEEEE get rid of it! After three years of madness..he finally got rid of it! He towed it to the scrap yard.. Yeah! It was that big of a piece of crap!

Then he "does a roof" for another hunk of junk work truck.. and now IT sits on the side of our his shed (and that flippin' shed is another story in itself!).

So lemme break it down for ya- I have a hunk of junk white truck in my side drive way.. a flat bed trailer in front of my house, and a big boat of a car in this unfinished shed next to my cute 3 year old house. It's a never ending battle I tell ya... and I'm definitely not winning it either!

SO ANY WHO-- Friday while my hubby and some of his friends worked on that "thang", I stayed inside, made a big crock pot of chili to feed all those hungry working men, and hung out with the kiddos. He worked till midnight.. I went to bed without him.

Saturday was another full day of working on that "thang" for the husband, so he gave me some cash and I packed the kids up and headed to the mall & Toys R Us---- MISTAKE!! I was a huge ball of stressed out crabbiness by the time I made it home.. Christmas music & Christmas decor (in early November), an enormous amount of shoppers, and three kids had officially pushed me over my limit. I got home and stayed home... made coke roast (recipe by the cockin' girls) and chilled the rest of the night.

Sunday my hubs didn't work on the car but don't worry, he was busy jumping up and down on my nerves! Fantasy football and craigslist can officially kiss my ass-- because this is ALL he wants to do! I love Mic to death, but men just don't get it.. they really don't. Just because you are "present" in the house, doesn't mean you are helping me in any which way or form. The kids were crabby and so were mommy and daddy.. so I slipped out to go tan (and breathe). Came home and felt better.. got ready and headed out to a Scentsy party. That went well.. I really do love selling Scentsy. Came home with some KFC for din din and went to bed early.

This last weekend wasn't one of my most exciting, fun, or eventful weekends but it was nice to just be at home.. get my laundry caught up.. eat some home cooked meals and just be with my kids.  Today has been a day like that too... the rain pretty much kept me in all day and it was nice.  Anyway--Hope ya'll have a good week..I'm sure gonna try =))

PS-I know it sounds like I was kinda husband bashing.. but I really wasn't trying to.. I know he loves that "thang" and I'm ok with that (I just don't) so we will just have to agree to disagree on this one!

Christmas Dresses

These are the Christmas dresses I got for the girls.. Love them! 

Ho Ho Ho

Whelp, Christmas is 49 days away and I am more than prepared! I only have a few people left to shop for!! I have NEVER shopped so early and I'm really pumped up about being almost done! Today I took the kids out to get a few Christmas gifts and I even grabbed a few for them and they didn't even notice... I'm such a sneaky little Santa! Here's some of the stuff I've gotten them =)) ((They are gonna be SO excited!))

Landon = Done.



Kennah = One Last Gift to buy.. then done.

Mikayla = One last gift to buy... then done.

This is the last thing I need to get besides stocking stuffers for the girls:

Now that isn't everything I got for the kids.. some stuff I couldn't find pictures of because I couldn't remember exactly what they were called, but that's most of it. This year I didn't spend the exact same amount of money on each kid.. I try to keep it around the same, but I did get the exact same amount of gifts. I can't wait to see how excited they are this year.

This is the app. that has helped keep me organized... it has made my life so much easier!

Christmas.

Since the mall and Toys R Us were so incredibly crazy today.. I won't be doing anymore "in store" shopping.. I will be Amazon-ing it up from here on out =))